Force always attracts men of low morality.
Albert EinsteinMusic has a power of forming the character and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.
AristotleEverything in the world is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power.
Oscar WildeNearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character give him power.
Abraham LincolnThe false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
Rabindranath TagoreMilitant feminists are pro-choice because it's their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe me, to them it is a question of power. It is their attempt to impose their will on the rest of society, particularly on men.
Rush LimbaughEvil is not power, it is ignorance and misuse of good.
James AllenRespect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
Clint EastwoodNever underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Robert A. HeinleinWho is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin FranklinThe more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
Aldous HuxleyEveryone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
Albert EinsteinConcentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
Ronald ReaganAll men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
James MadisonBeliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them, or one that can literally save their lives.
Tony RobbinsOne thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am, will never work in this town again.
Jim CarreyEquality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Honore de BalzacWhere is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
Kahlil GibranPower does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John SteinbeckThe ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation, rather than upon mere survival.
AristotleThe greater the power the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund BurkePassion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
Oprah WinfreyShe had lost the art of conversation, but not unfortunately the power of speech.
George Bernard ShawA pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
Friedrich NietzscheEvil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil but as a necessity, even a duty.
Simone WeilThe ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
Erich FrommThe one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
AristotleAll the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Swami VivekanandaEulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
Ambrose BierceGiving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P. J. O'RourkeThere is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
John AdamsThe attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Albert EinsteinThe tendency to aggression is an innate independent instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.
Sigmund FreudFree enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.
Paul RyanAncient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.
Aristotle'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
William ShakespeareUnless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much power you have.
Oprah WinfreyThere is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
Booker T. WashingtonPoliticians also have no leisure because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory or happiness.
AristotleForce does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
Jean-Jacques RousseauLiberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
James MadisonAdvertising nourishes the consuming power of men. It sets up before a man the goal of a better home, better clothing, better food for himself and his family. It spurs individual exertion and greater production.
Winston ChurchillI will insist on a military so powerful no one would ever think of challenging it.
Mitt RomneyAll gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings and so give them the power to pull ours.
Aldous HuxleyThe thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
Oprah WinfreyTime crumbles things, everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
AristotleThe first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
John RuskinAlways there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.
Douglas MacArthurCapitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power, but that of self interest backed by force.
George Bernard ShawAmbition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach, we are never satisfied.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowReligion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
Richard DawkinsI have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Abraham LincolnThe power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.
Winston ChurchillIn the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
Simone WeilThat deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe forms my idea of God.
Albert EinsteinIf you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.
Marcus AureliusThe truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
James MadisonDesperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
Benjamin DisraeliGetting and spending we lay waste our powers.
William WordsworthFreedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
Marcus Tullius CiceroDo not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
Ayn RandThere is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
SophoclesWe have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Carl SaganHe that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Samuel JohnsonPower concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Frederick DouglassMan's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
Frederick DouglassNow we have a problem in making our power credible and Vietnam is the place.
John F. KennedyWell I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion which has had a lot of money and power.
Alice WalkerUnconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
John F. KennedyWe are born to action, and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
Rush LimbaughOne without power does not mean lack of physical or mental strength.
Sai BabaI believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
James MadisonThe incentive to ambition is the love of power.
William HazlittWant balance in your life? Then sure get your own act together but don't forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.
Stephen CoveyEverything that enlarges the sphere of human powers that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do is valuable.
Samuel JohnsonWe do not need more intellectual power we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen we need more of the things that are unseen.
Calvin CoolidgeLiberty according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
John AdamsMastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.
Lao TzuThe general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
John Stuart MillFortune which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
Julius CaesarWondrous is the strength of cheerfulness and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time will do it, better will preserve it longer than the sad or sullen.
Thomas CarlylePolitically the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.
Alice WalkerThe terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it the speed of his acceptance.
E. B. WhiteThe power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
George Bernard ShawIt is good taste and good taste alone that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
Salvador DaliEverything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
Wayne DyerOne reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus, we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life never deciding to master anything in particular.
Tony RobbinsConciliate a strong man by submission a wicked man by opposition and the one whose power is equal to yours by politeness or force.
ChanakyaAir power can either paralyze the enemy's military action, or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications a share of his straitened resources, far greater that what we need in the attack.
Winston ChurchillNo passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund BurkeNever allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
Eleanor RooseveltThis is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
C. S. LewisThe world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
Friedrich NietzschePower over a man's subsistence is power over his will.
Alexander HamiltonThe less effort the faster and more powerful you will be.
Bruce LeeAll modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
Albert CamusPower after love is the first source of happiness.
StendhalHe who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much but with less power.
PlatoIt's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept and you have to take it seriously.
Stephen KingGod wears Truth the good seek Truth and the bad are rescued by Truth, Truth liberates, Truth is power, Truth is freedom. It is the lamp that illuminates the heart and dispels doubt and darkness.
Sai BabaVote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
Ambrose BierceBecause your own strength is unequal to the task do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man, but if anything is within the powers and province of man believe that it is within your own compass also.
Marcus AureliusI have never seen opponents so silent about their record and so desperate to keep their power.
Paul RyanI repeat... that all power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise, that from the people and for the people all springs and all must exist.
Benjamin DisraeliThe truth does not require a majority to prevail ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.
Rush LimbaughThey are decided only to be undecided resolved to be irresolute adamant for drift solid for fluidity all-powerful to be impotent.
Winston ChurchillThe world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.
John F. KennedyThe once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole and now sits in a prison cell.
George W. BushThe power of man has grown in every sphere except over himself.
Winston ChurchillThe reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
George EliotThe strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities our families our faiths. That is the bedrock of what makes America America. In our best days we can feel the vibrancy of America's communities large and small.
Mitt RomneyTo get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.
Simone WeilIn the general course of human nature A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
Alexander HamiltonThe power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
James Arthur BaldwinIn the Bible we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh an act of grace freely given.
Desmond TutuThe most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.
Wilson MiznerThe constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress, therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
George WashingtonPower is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters one thing, to be able to dare!
Fyodor DostoevskyI mean having the speedometer in the front windshield was something I've never experienced before and that took some getting used to. The power was there and every red light was a temptation.
Lance ArmstrongMaking fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
P. J. O'RourkeThe selfishness must be discovered and understood before it can be removed. It is powerless to remove itself neither will it pass away of itself. Darkness ceases only when light is introduced, so ignorance can only be dispersed by Knowledge, selfishness by Love.
James AllenLife is thickly sown with thorns and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.
VoltaireHe who possesses intelligence is strong, how can the man that is unintelligent be powerful? The elephant of the forest, having lost his senses by intoxication, was tricked into a lake by a small rabbit.
ChanakyaIn the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.
Alexander HamiltonNever forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love prayer and forgiveness.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
VoltaireNew nobility is but the act of power but ancient nobility is the act of time.
Francis BaconThe man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMy great comfort is that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers, I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.
Lord ByronIf the people are happy united wealthy and powerful we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
Edmund BurkeIf you must break the law do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
Julius CaesarEvery human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose to respond to change.
Stephen CoveyA man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
Henry Ward BeecherWe are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
Stephen CoveyThere will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers and political power, and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
PlatoExcessive fear is always powerless.
AeschylusIt is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
Eric HofferDiplomacy: the art of restraining power.
Henry A. KissingerMy relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerJustice and power must be brought together so that whatever is just may be powerful and whatever is powerful may be just.
Blaise PascalWhen anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.
Billy GrahamPower is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are you aren't.
Margaret ThatcherOn the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Friedrich NietzscheBut to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.
Alan WattsPower will intoxicate the best hearts as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
Charles Caleb ColtonThere is none made so great but he may both need the help and service and stand in fear of the power and unkindness even of the meanest of mortals.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest.
George W. BushNot necessity not desire - no the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health food a place to live entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
Friedrich NietzscheWhen one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
Henry MillerThe radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza let alone cooking it.
Stephen HawkingWar has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound, its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
Friedrich NietzscheChristianity is not the faith of the complacent the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley Wilberforce Bonhoeffer John Paul the Second and Billy Graham. Each showed in their own way the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ.
Mitt RomneyAll the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
Ronald ReaganWoes and wonders of Power that tonic hell synthesis of poison and panacea.
Emile M. CioranThat all-softening overpowering knell / The tocsin of the soul - the dinner-bell.
Lord ByronThe monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
Francis BaconPower is action, the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
Honore de BalzacNothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
OvidArbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
George WashingtonConcentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
Milton FriedmanOh while I live to be the ruler of life not a slave to meet life as a powerful conqueror and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
Walt WhitmanBe Silent yourself that will induce Silence in others. Do not fall into the habit of shouting talking long and loud. Reduce contacts to the minimum. Carry with you an atmosphere of quiet contemplation wherever you happen to be. The less you talk the more will become your mental power. With the increase in your mental capacity there will be increase in your power of discrimination too. Consequently you will give up individual discrimination . Because of this you will begin to consider the good of the world at large rather than your own individual welfare. You must cultivate such broad feelings from this young age itself.
Sai BabaThe most powerful force in the universe is gossip.
Dave BarryGoals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us, concentrate our energy.
Denis WaitleyIt is certain in any case that ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
James Arthur BaldwinPower is not alluring to pure minds.
Thomas JeffersonIt is certainly more agreeable to have power to give than to receive
Winston ChurchillI'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words I think are very powerful and they convey an intention.
Drew BarrymoreAll the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest, with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years.
Abraham LincolnThe future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama your agenda is not new. It's not change and it's not hope.
Rush LimbaughEvery man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
Ayn RandTo be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIt is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
James AllenThe atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.
Lyndon B. JohnsonNor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity, or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
Kahlil GibranIt takes tremendous discipline to control the influence the power you have over other people's lives.
Clint EastwoodI would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy without pollution or global warming.
Stephen HawkingThe United States is like giant boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.
Winston ChurchillA mountain is broken even by a thunderbolt: is the thunderbolt therefore as big as the mountain? No he whose power prevails is really mighty, what is there in bulk?
ChanakyaA powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
Marcel ProustThe two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
EpictetusWhoever is new to power is always harsh.
AeschylusEverything is generated through your own will power.
Ray BradburySo they [the Government] go on in strange paradox decided only to be undecided resolved to be irresolute adamant for drift solid for fluidity all-powerful for impotence.
Winston ChurchillMagnetism as you recall from physics class is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.
Dave BarryThe people are the only legitimate fountain of power and it is from them that the constitutional charter under which the several branches of government hold their power is derived.
James MadisonThe world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
ChanakyaMost powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaRank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
Peter DruckerThe measure of a man is what he does with power.
PlatoPower and speed be hands and feet.
Ralph Waldo EmersonKindness is in our power even when fondness is not.
Samuel JohnsonLove is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
Theodor W. AdornoI am not invested with dictatorial powers. If I were I should be quite ready to dictate.
Winston ChurchillCommunism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.
Vladimir LeninWe cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful just as strong just as well-funded.
Barack ObamaLiberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others nor our own powerlessness stupefy us.
Theodor W. AdornoPassions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe